Author Bios

Malak Shalabi works for the organization Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action). She has written on torture, occupation and U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Malak is …

Sravya Tadepalli is a freelance writer based in Oregon. Her writing has been featured in Arlington Magazine, Teaching Tolerance, the Portland Tribune, Oregon Humanities, and the textbook America Now. …

Jimmy Cloutier is a reporting fellow at OpenSecrets. Jimmy joined OpenSecrets in 2022 as the Roy W. Howard Reporting Fellow. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in …

Chris Aadland, Red Lake and Leech Lake Ojibwe, is a reporter for Indian Country Today and Underscore.news. Follow him on Twitter: @cjaadland. 

Carina Dominguez, Pascua Yaqui, is a correspondent and producer for Indian Country Today. Previously she worked for CBS Television Network. Carina’s work has appeared in news outlets like The …

Martina Burtscher is a caseworker on Reprieve’s “Life After Guantánamo” project. She studied Arabic and Persian in the Middle East and France. She holds masters’ degrees in political science …

Colleen Wessel-McCoy is author of Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign (Lexington, 2021), and a Neely Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy …

Emily Hopkins is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.Before joining ProPublica, Hopkins was an investigative reporter for The Indianapolis Star. In 2020, their work exposed deep flaws in Indiana’s …

Alexandra Martinez is the senior news reporter at Prism. She is a Cuban-American writer based in Miami, Florida, with an interest in immigration, the economy, gender justice and the …

Alec Connon is the coordinator of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a coalition of over 200 organizations working to stop the flow of money from Wall Street to …